Free insurance policies to students for dengue
Students of nine schools of Kamrup district received free insurance policy of Rs 20,000 for dengue under the collaboration of a social-based organisation Drishtee and CAFE India under the Behtar India
Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
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Works to be ready by June
Over 90 per cent of the Rs 8.21 crore project to close the Beki embankment breach at Narayanguri is complete by now, while the rate of erosion is reduced considerably at Bahari in Barpeta district. Highly-placed sources in the State Water Resources Department (WRD) told this newspaper that by June 15 the rest of the work was expected to be complete. Meanwhile, a sanction of Rs 5 crore has been granted for opening the silted up mouth of the Manas at Mathanguri. The BTAD is to execute the work by excavating the mouth of the Manas, sources said.
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Plantation programme
Way foundation, an NGO working for the integral development of youth, organised a plantation programme at Maina Khaong MV School, Gorchuk on the occasion of the World Environment Day on 5th June. The programme was followed by an Art Competition. A hundred students participated in the same NGO member Prativa Barua spoke on the necessity of conserving forests.
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Fight over uranium
Till date the southern states were infamous for boundary disputes. But this malaise seems to have spread to the north-east where Assam and Meghalaya are locked in a border row over a remote village Lampih following the potential discovery of uranium in this tiny hamlet. To ensure that Lampih remains with it. the Assam Government has dangled lots of carrots including a health centre and motorable roads for 31,200 villagers who have to travel for six hours on horseback to reach the nearest road.
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Sweeping' steps to clean city
The State Government and the district administration are initiating a number of measures to ease various problems plaguing the city. Revealing this at a press conference, the Minister for Guwahati Development, Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) would be engaging 700 new sweepers within two to three days. "The GMC now has 350 sweepers and the 700 new sweepers would be recruited as muster roll workers, taking their number to 1,500,' he said.
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Call to check infant mortality rate
SIPAJHAR
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Plan to exchange recyclable plastic wastes with ginger, garlic
With the support of community participation, Environ, a city-based environmental NGO, is planning to make the recycling of plastic more productive in terms of employment generation and pollution control. Plastic waste, often occupying a considerable space in any household, and also a prime cause of flash flood in the city, can now even help
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Another rhino killed at KNP
DERGAON
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Environment Day at Panjabari-Botahghuli
The Guwahati chapter of Society for Promotion of Tourism (SPOT) observed the World Environment Day on June 5 at Panjabari-Botahghuli area of the city with a day-long programme. The programme began with plantation of tree saplings in the premises of Botahghuli LP School. The plantation programme was inaugurated by Ajit Kumar Bora, president of SPOT Guwahati chapter by planting a sapling in presence of students, guests and public.